Watching: Teteu

Overview

A documentary that follows Jabjab, a boy living in the forest in West Sumatra, Indonesia, with calm and peaceful footage. Indigenous people who choose a traditional lifestyle of coexistence with the forest are influenced by developments from the outside world and are ineluctably drawn toward changes in their way of life. Scenes of a boy going to the city to attend school are contrasted with those of a boy living in the forest through well-composed black and white and color footage.